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The Chinese embassy "strongly" condemned the terror attack on the convoy carrying 23 Chinese engineers in Balochistan and warned Pakistan to take effective measures to prevent similar incidents from happening again. China further demanded a thorough investigation into the attack and severely punish the perpetrators. "The Chinese Embassy in Pakistan strongly condemns this terrorist act.The Embassy and the Consulate General in Karachi launched emergency response immediately, requesting the Pakistani authorities to conduct a thorough investigation on the attack, severely punish the perpetrators, take practical and effective measures to prevent similar incidents from happening again," the Chinese Embassy in Pakistan said...

Baluchis in Pakistan are rebelling against colonization by Chinese. Starts around 8:00.

Three shooters stormed the Pearl Continental Hotel in Gwadar, Pakistan, officials said. At least one person was killed...

BEIJING --- The website of Taiwan's China Times reported on November 29 that with the increase of national strength, protecting overseas interests has become the strategic core of the Chinese mainland. According to a Pakistan naval personnel, the PLA Navy will deploy submarines in south Pakistan’s Gwadar Port so as to protect the ports and trade shipping lines in this region. China may also build a military base in Gwadar Port to provide maintenance support for the PLA naval fleet operating in the Indian Ocean and provide support for the PLA Navy to conduct missions and tasks in the future....

In Pakistan’s Gwadar port, Chinese whispers grow May 26, 2011 19:16 IST First, China helped develop Pakistan’s Gwadar port from scratch on the Baluchistan coast to take the pressure off the country’s main port of Karachi, a few hundred miles to the east. Now Pakistan’s defence minister has said that it would like its long-time ally to build a naval base at Gwadar, which sits on the doorstep of Gulf shipping lanes, less than 200 kms from the mouth of the Straits of Hormuz. China, which provided more than 80 percent of the port’s $248 million development cost, has moved...

Report: Pakistan wants Chinese to have naval base Stars and Stripes Published: May 23, 2011 Pakistan has asked China to build a naval base at its port of Gwadar, and wants the Chinese navy to maintain a regular presence there, Britain’s Financial Times reported Monday. “We have asked our Chinese brothers to please build a naval base at Gwadar,” Chaudhary Ahmed Mukhtar, Pakistan’s defence minister, told the Times, confirming that the request was conveyed to China during a visit last week by Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani. Such a foothold would be the first overseas location offering support to...

Pakistan wants China to build it a naval base Reuters ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Saturday it wanted China to build it a naval base, in the latest sign of moves to strengthen ties with Beijing as relations with Washington falter. The announcement from Pakistan’s defence minister came a day after Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani returned from a four-day visit to China, Islamabad’s biggest arms supplier. “We would be … grateful to the Chinese government if a naval base is … constructed at the site of Gwadar for Pakistan,” Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar said in a statement, referring to...

The reported United States plan to use Predator drone aircraft to attack targets in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan may affect activity there by the Chinese, who have focused most of their investment in the country in that area, notably around the seaport of Gwadar, according to local analysts. United States President Barack Obama and his top aides are reported to be considering expanding covert operations against Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders to Balochistan, particularly in and around the provincial capital of Quetta. Taliban leader Mullah Omar is rumored to be based in the province, something denied last week by Balochistan...

Commentary: China's strategic post in the Persian Gulf TORONTO, Sep. 26 HARI SUD Column: Abroad View If the flow of Middle East oil to China is squeezed, the Chinese economy will come to a grinding halt. Today China imports 32 percent of its oil needs. This need is expected to double by 2012. Of this oil, 58 percent comes from the Middle East -- about 2 million barrels a day. It is expected that by 2012 almost 70 percent of all oil imports -- about 4 million barrels a day -- will come from the Middle East. Hence it is...

China, Pakistan team up on energy A new China-financed port on Pakistan's coast ups the ante in the new 'Great Game' for energy resources in the Middle East and Central Asia. By David Montero | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Page 1 of 3 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - If China is to become the economic powerhouse it envisions, the road to its new future could run, literally, through Pakistan. Or so the two nations hope. Last month, they inaugurated Gwadar Port in Pakistan's Balochistan Province, the first step in an elaborate "energy corridor" that will one day ship Persian Gulf...

China's footprint in Pakistan A new port is a boon locally, a potential military asset for Beijing and a worry to the U.S. By Henry Chu, Times Staff Writer April 1, 2007 GWADAR, PAKISTAN — Along a scenic beach where fishermen mend their nets by hand, an endless row of storefronts stretches into the distance, all selling the same thing. Not sunscreen, umbrellas or cold drinks. Land. Never mind that the area is home to a violent separatist movement, or that foreigners are regarded with suspicion by police. A property boom has hit this formerly sleepy town in southwest Pakistan...

Musharraf: Ties with China deeper than sea KARACHI: Standing on the deck of a Pakistani warship and pointing to the blue waters of the Arabian Sea, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said: "China-Pakistan relations are deeper than this sea." Musharraf, who was witnessing a multinational naval exercise, said on Saturday that like the relationship between the two countries, the ties between the navies of Pakistan and China are also strong. He added the two navies must cooperate for peace and security on the seas. "This is an excellent exercise. It has a great tactical and operational value for the navy; they...

Sino-Pak cooperation provoking US, India * Analyst says Balochs afraid of being displaced from Gwadar Daily Times Monitor LAHORE: The United States and India view the joint venture between Pakistan and China for the development of the Gwadar Port as “a serious provocation”. Analyst Susanne Koelbl writes on the German web portal ‘Spiegel Online’ that New Delhi and Washington view the new port in Balochistan as detrimental to their interests in the region. “Gwadar is already seen as strategically important today,” Koelbl writes. “The Pakistanis are building a port which, unlike Karachi, would hardly be vulnerable to a naval blockade...

13 April 2005: As a favour for development and use of the Gwadar deep sea port, China has consented to export missile defence systems to Pakistan, and these will be deployed in Rawalpindi and sensitive nuclear and missile installations in Kahuta, Sargodha, and in the North West Frontier Province. Following India’s Phalcon deal with Israel, it was reported in October 2003 that China would supply Pakistan an undisclosed number of FT-2000 missiles to counter India’s early warning capabilities. Now with India likely to install a missile defence system, Pakistan has pressured China for some of its own, and this, whether...

Pakistan to buy four warships from China Monday, 04 April , 2005, 18:35 Islamabad: Pakistan is to buy four frigates for its navy from long-time ally China, the defence ministry said on Monday, ahead of a visit by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. "Pakistan and China have signed four contracts for the construction of four F-22P frigate ships for Pakistan Navy," a Pakistani defence ministry statement said. The frigates will be equipped with anti-submarine helicopters, surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles and other defence systems, the statement added. "These ships, after construction, will be inducted into Pakistan Navy which would not only enhance...

China's pearl in Pakistan's waters By Sudha Ramachandran BANGALORE - When Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visits Pakistan this month to inaugurate the Gwadar deepsea port, China will take a giant leap forward in gaining a strategic foothold in the Persian Gulf region. It will advance what a recent Pentagon report describes as Beijing's "string of pearls" strategy that aims to project Chinese power overseas and protect China's energy security at home. Gwadar is a fishing village on the Arabian Sea coast in the Pakistani province of Balochistan. Balochistan shares borders with Afghanistan and Iran to the west - Gwadar is...

China Gains Strategic Foothold Near Persian Gulf By Patrick Goodenough CNSNews.com International Editor February 23, 2005 Pacific Rim Bureau (CNSNews.com) - Pakistan, within weeks, will mark the opening of the first phase of a deep-sea port project that analysts say will give China a crucial economic and strategic foothold in the Arabian Sea. Chinese funding has enabled President Pervez Musharraf's government to push ahead with the project on Pakistan's southwest coast, near the mouth of the Persian Gulf and some 250 miles from the Strait of Hormuz, a major conduit for world oil supplies. Experts say the project has set...

Chinese 'operatives' face Pakistani wrath By B Raman The kidnapping of two Chinese engineers working on an irrigation project in South Waziristan in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan by a group of pro-Osama bin Laden jihadis last week and the death of one of them on Wednesday, during a rescue operation mounted by the US-trained Special Services Group, the parent army unit of President General Pervez Musharraf, draws attention once again to the growing threat to Chinese lives and interests in Pakistan from jihadi terrorists belonging to the International Islamic Front (IIF) of bin Laden. In an...